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around grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] 20-year-old Rachel good has been missing
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from her hometown of Elton Virginia since October 2003 Rachel was last seen with friends
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in the parking lot behind the Elton volunteer fire department near the coin laundry off of Spotswood Trail in the
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town of Elton at approximately 600 p.m. on the evening of October 18th 2003 Rachel Good's case is classified as
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an endangered missing person case the current investigating agency is the Virginia State Police Rachel is
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described at the time of her disappearance as a 20-year-old Caucasian female 5'4 in tall about 180 lb with
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blonde hair and brown eyes Rachel has scars on her Naval and on her back Rachel was wearing a yellow t-shirt blue
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jeans and possibly stud earrings if you have any information regarding The Disappearance of Rachel
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good please contact the Virginia State Police at 800 57222 60 this is true crime
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garage [Music] for this week's True Crime case we head over to Elton Virginia Elton is a small
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town of approximately 3,000 residents nestled on the east side of Rockingham County in the beautiful shann andoa
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Valley now we've covered some several cases over the garage years in this area of our great country one that comes to
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mind is this is rather near the Colonial Parkway murders that is still unsolved to this day this area of Elton again
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small town it's located just a few minutes from Interstate 81 between Harrisonburg and
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Charlottesville Elon is a Crossroads for progress and small town living the population back in 2010 which is closer
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to the date of our case Okay so Rachel good goes missing in 2003 this year year is unfortunately the
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20th anniversary of this missing person's case now the population back in 2010 was little more than 2700 people
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and as said captain at the center of this story is our missing person 20-year-old Rachel good back in 2003 she
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is a mother of three children and she was known to be a free spirit who was rather outgoing
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she enjoyed talking with people meeting new people as said considered by many to
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be a free spirit just a fun loving individual Rachel attended Fort Defiance High School her parents are Brenda Brown
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and Carrie good now in 2003 her parents had been separated for some time mother Brenda Brown had went on to remarry Mike
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Brown was her current husband and still still is her husband to this day and Carrie good the father
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is a long haul trucker at this time in 2003 he's considerably older now and retired but
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the two were separated before Rachel went missing and now we say that she was 20 years old but her birth date is
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October so she's a very young 20 years old at the time of her disappearance so let's jump in our DeLorean and go back
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to October 18th 2003 and let's go through the timeline yes this will be the start of our
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timeline we're going to start off at 6:00 p.m. roughly Captain this is when several people are hanging out together
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with Rachel she's with her friends they're socializing they're having a good time and this is a small town so in
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this small town one of the hangout spots is a parking lot and the parking lot belongs to the Elton volunteer fire
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department so this parking lot is actually behind the firehouse and she is there hanging out
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with friends socializing nothing seems wrong with Rachel's world as far as anybody could tell during that time
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of hanging out that evening right and she is seen leaving leaving safely in her vehicle a Dodge
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Neon and that is the last time that we have confirmed sightings of Rachel good we're going to jump to the next day the
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following day Rachel was supposed to hang out with a friend she had plans for that morning she didn't show up and when
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she fails to arrive and show up for these plans her friend starts calling her where are you well you know I
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thought we were hanging out today we had this to do we had this scheduled where are you can't get a hold of Rachel this
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is very out of character for Rachel good she was the type if she made plans with
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a friend or loved one she followed through on them and she was available you know she was someone if you reached
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out to her she would pick up the phone she would respond when her friend can't get a hold of her this is going to raise
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the red flag the warning signs are something's not right I'll reach out to her mother just to say hey we were
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supposed to have plans I'm a little concerned I can't get a hold of Rachel so the friend Captain reaches out to
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Rachel's mother and explains that one they were supposed to hang out and two now she cannot get a hold of Rachel so
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we know how these things go right this is the domino effect we've seen it time and time again in missing person's cases
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or Foul Play cases somebody raises the flag sounds the alarm Bell and now we have other people trying to get in touch
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with Rachel good to no avail two of the people we know that we're looking for Rachel that
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afternoon now the mother and her brother as well and when they failed to get in contact with their daughter and sister
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they decide we should go to our police department and and we already discussed how small of a town Elton Virginia is so
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that carries over to the public Services as well and Emergency Services as well so this is a very small Police
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Department very few Personnel working as police in this area so they go to the police department the afternoon of
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October 19th so we don't have that exact time of when they are there to report Rachel missing but it puts us roughly in
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the 20 to 24hour window of the last time that any anybody has seen her or the confirmed sightings of Rachel good well
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when she left the fire department where she was hanging out with friends the day
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before where was her destination it's believed that she was going to return to her residence so she's 20 years old
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she's a young 20 like she just turned 20 maybe two weeks prior to this she is living on her own so she's not living at
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mom's or dad's house at the time of her disappearance as said from the reports it's believed she was to head home after
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leaving the fire department parking lot that evening October 18th so Rachel was hanging out with some friends then she's
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going to head home around 6:00 p.m. again the next day she's going to meet a friend she doesn't meet that friend the
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friend can't get a hold of Rachel so now the friend Rachel and Rachel's brother are going to go to the police department
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to report her missing yes I know this timeline seems very short and it's for good reason because this is where the
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timeline's going to pick up a little bit of speed here Captain we talked so much
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here in the garage about every case being unique and the details of every case being unique this next detail is
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one that we've not heard before so mom and brother are at the Elton Police Department again it's small it's a very
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small Police Department we're talking like I think there's four full-time officers at the time one being the
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chief and then some underlings right they may have some part-time officers or maybe even
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volunteer staff or personnel as well but at the time I believe it's four individuals working this Police
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Department they're probably not even open 247 we've seen this with many small towns especially if you go back to the
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Decades of the 70s or the 80s when we talk about these old cases but this one being a more recent
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case we want to point out the the how small the police department is now so mother and brother are there at Elton to
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report daughter and sister missing and here's mom's exact words okay so we have Brenda Brown is Rachel Good's
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mother this is what she says about placing that report the missing person's report quote I have never seen anyone
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shake like that she's talking about the officer here who took the report he could barely hold
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his ink pen in his hand and he only wrote a couple of lines end quote so mom and brother are there to
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report the Rachel is missing the officer that takes the report is shaking like not just visibly shaking like the dude
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can barely hold the pen taking the report now this officer is rather young he's 22 years old so you can read into
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that what what you will but you're not going to have to read too far because as said the timeline picks up some speed
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real quick here now they do say that even though the officer was shaking uh this officer's
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name who took the report his name is Adam Williams they did say that the the man seemed to be caring um and seemed to
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be concerned and was empathetic enough to tell Mom to tell Brenda hey like I we want to help you out here we're going to
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do everything we can and if you need anything you can call me personally I will make sure to look into anything
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that you need we're going to find your daughter well you can look at that in a couple ways though because this
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individual is roughly the same age as Rachel so they could have known each other in
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school um especially like you said it's a it's a very small town but you could look at it say well this guy seems a
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little off-put he seems a little nervous is it is he saying hey you can reach out to me with any information and
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I I'll make sure I do it I mean I almost view his actions almost a little suspicious well and the thing here
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Captain is I don't know how they catch cases in Elton back in 2003 but we talked about the small staff
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there at the police department right Adam Williams the 22-year-old who takes the report will become the Department's
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the Elton Police Department's lead investigator on this missing person's case so he is in charge of looking for
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Rachel putting out the U feelers to to figure out if anybody's seen her right to take in information collect evidence
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go to her home and all the stuff that you would do in your typical investigation and here we have something
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that we don't have in in some cases we have a quick a quick call to action right mom and brother are reporting her
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missing less than 24 hours after she's last seen and now we have an investigator who is actively working the
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case very quickly into this disappearance case and I don't believe we have any eyewitnesses that saw Rachel
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get back to her home correct we don't have any if she returned and we also don't have
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any indicators from police after the fact saying look when we went to investigate when we went to her
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residence we saw this that and the other thing so we believe she made it back now
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one thing that may may suggest that she positively returned to her residence that evening is her
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vehicle is accounted for that Dodge Neon not only do they know where it is but it's found outside of her residence so
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it would appear that she she returned home that evening it sounds like she didn't have her kids that night and that
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she was going to hang out with a friend the following day we should note that's a Saturday evening right going into
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Sunday so the kids were probably elsewhere that night if if she would have had her children that night we know
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this she probably would have been reported missing much sooner so we have this window of time between 6:00 p.m.
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her vehicle back at her residence and the following morning so we have about a 14-hour 15-hour
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window of movements and activities and events that are really just unknown to us as we sit here and discuss this
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disappearance all of these years later well it seems like somewhat of a win as far as the investigation goes cuz we
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found our vehicle but to me I almost view that as a loss because it's easier sometimes to find a
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vehicle than is a a person and so if she was still with her vehicle easier to find her well on a big loss too because
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when we went through the items described that it's believed she was wearing when she disappeared right the
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concern then becomes look you you you can kind of leave the light on and still have some hope when you hear oh she went
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missing but the other items that are missing uh her clothes maybe even a change of clothes her cell phone her
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purse her car all of those items are missing as well so then you hope well maybe this person just said you know
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what I've had enough I'm hopping in the old Dodge Neon and I'm I'm heading west right but in this case you find her car
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that's trouble in this case you find her purse at her residence that's trouble I'm I'm
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uncertain about her cell phone I do know that she had one I don't know if it was
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found or not I can say this on the missing person's Flyers there's no mention of a cell phone there so it that
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to me is suggestive that they did recover her cell phone the only items listed on the missing person's Flyers is
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the yellow t-shirt blue jeans and some earrings the other the the other alarming thing to me here captain no
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mention of shoes or Footwear on the missing persons and you know yes a lot of us have a a you know lots of shirts
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or lots of pairs of pants of course there are some men and women who have lots of shoes as well but you hear in a
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lot of these missing persons cases or Foul Play cases that when they take a especially a mother or a sister to a
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scene and say okay what's missing from her apartment what's missing from this home you often will
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hear them say oh well she had a pair of boots that she always wore or a favorite
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pair of high tops that that she liked and and that that item is not here so no Footwear being missing as well this to
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me immediately from Jump Street sniffs and smells like Foul Play do we know the state of her house at the time she went
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missing it's in Virginia no I I don't know the the situation I do know she's not living with her mom or her father
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well but and and the reason why I bring that up is cuz if she went missing if the last time somebody saw her was at
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her house that would probably be reported on um but we have no indication that there was any type of break into
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her house or or any kind of um they didn't think that her house was like disheveled and and like that there was a
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crime scene at the at the residency from what we've been told nothing that they saw at her residence suggested Foul Play
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or suggested breaking and entering or any type of struggle at all see it makes you wonder if she's going to meet up
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with somebody so she's hanging out with some friends around 6:00 p.m. she heads home she Parks her car and then she gets
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in another vehicle that's why I believe her cell phone is the answer to this case because unless somebody just
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knocked on the door she willingly opened it up and she's not wearing any shoes and they just snatch and grab her right
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where was her purse found was it found in the vehicle or was it found in her home inside the home see it it' be okay
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so but we're going to see a quick problem with this air quotes evidence right give me the problem so yeah let's
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get to this because this is going to throw a big old wrench into everything so after a few days this is only after a
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couple days that she's been missing remember Elton Police Adam Williams 22 years old who took the report shaking it
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all has already been in investigating this case for a couple of days at this point this is when her family they're at
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Rachel's place and they discover some notes you know some back and forth Communications with uh a penp pal I
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guess you would call it these notes are talking about a romantic relationship one that her parents and
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brother don't seem to have much of a clue about right they they have some thoughts that they they do know she's
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dating someone didn't know who it was but after finding these notes they figure out that there's
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communication about a romantic relationship between Rachel good and 22-year-old Adam
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Williams who is now the lead investigator on this missing person's case well surprise surprise well and not
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only surprise surprise but keep in mind he took the report he didn't say to Rachel's mother oh by the the way we've
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been I've been dating your daughter right doesn't say to Rachel's brother oh by the way I I know your sister that's
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why I said there's something fishy about the whole idea hey if you guys uh think
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of anything contact me first you you would expect a detective to say you could you know contact me directly I'd
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rather you talk to me than to talk to whoever's answering the phones that day because you don't want anything to get
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lost in translation yeah but he should have immediately said look I I have a relationship with your daughter I can't
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investigate this case and even at the very least if he was unable to communicate that with mom and brother
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once he was able to calm down he should have went to his Superior and said hey guys um I just took this report of this
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missing person I know them now you you think about how small this town is so it wouldn't be uncommon for the individuals
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working the officers working to know a person that you're taking a report about right but in this situation this he had
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an opportunity to say hey I'm involved in this romantic relationship with this young woman she's missing you guys got
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to take the case this one can't be mine he never does that instead he goes out and he's actually investigating and then
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the the family comes forward they're like wait a second we found these notes Adam Williams knows our daughter and it
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seems like they had some kind of relationship going on that we're just kind of figuring out right now so they
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pull him Elton Police rightfully so they pull him off the case but he's been on it for a few days now yeah she's not
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turned up the most important days of the investigation and Elton Police did did their exactly what they should do here
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right you now you this case has already been compromised yeah and you now need to get a different agency involved and
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so what they do is they reach out and the Virginia state police will eventually take the case now there's
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going to be a few days of nothing happening by the time Virginia State Police can get to to start to
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investigate here but at least we don't have Adam Williams still investigating in the meantime so he's only working the
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case for a couple days when all of this information comes to light he's pulled from the case now we have Virginia State
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further down my notes here and I do have a not ation that the the main item of concern personal
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item of concern that was not recovered is in fact Rachel's cell phone and we've already mentioned that her purse and
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in now we kind of need to jump back to about a week prior okay so she goes missing on a Saturday night the
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Sunday before Rachel is hanging out with her father Carrie and says to Dad hey Dad by
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the way I I am dating somebody I'm seeing a guy and he's a police officer now Carrie never gets Adam Williams's
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name from his daughter they don't go into that much detail but she does does mention that to Dad on that Sunday yeah
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doesn't say what agency he's with you know could be a this could be a sheriff's deputy could be somebody with
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the state police could be somebody in Elton he doesn't know much of the details about this person other than
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Rachel tells Dad hey Dad by the way I'm seeing a guy and he's a police officer now we know who the police
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officer is it's Adam Williams there's a lot of problems with this there's nothing wrong with dating a police
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officer but Adam Williams is 22 years old and married well gives you some motivation um we got this secretive pinp
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pal and then oh she's now telling people not using his name there's a reason why
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she didn't tell the Father the name because he's married and so that gives him all the
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motive in the world to get rid of somebody and let's complicate matters even even further Rachel good is
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pregnant at the time of her disappearance oh really and all reports state that it is believed now this
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hasn't been scientifically confirmed as far as I have seen well that's cuz we haven't been able to find her but it all
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reports state that it is believed that the the Father the baby daddy is Adam Williams married to another woman who
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was lead investigator for a couple days on Rachel Good's case so he's got time to if he did do something to Rachel if
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he caused her to disappear he had time to bury hide burn conceal evidence well this guy has a garage full of canoes if
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you get garage full of skeletons yeah if you uh catch my drift now according to those who knew
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Rachel she's pregnant she tells Adam that she's pregnant and they say that he wanted Rachel to get an
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abortion and to further back up this statement this belief is her friend saying that he not only agreed to pay
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for the abortion but he gave her the money to cover she Rachel didn't want to have an abortion she was going to have
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the baby and a little bit of a thumb in the eye here the money that Adam gives to her according to these friends Rachel
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decided to spend that on other things and so we have this very this is a messy situation yes very messy where you can
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you can easily right you've heard very little detail so far and one can quickly close their eyes and go I have a pretty
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darn good feeling about how all of this went down Rachel goes home Adam comes over there's a a discussion a
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conversation that's had oh you know this is our situation that we've found found
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ourselves in this is the bed that we've made now we got a lie in it right and he's saying I want you to do this and
00:35:03
she's saying no I won't do that and oh by the way I spent the money on something else and when he doesn't get
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his way the result is an altercation things get physical maybe he chokes her maybe
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he strangles her and now we sit here that Saturday night in October and our suspect has a problem on his hands he's
00:35:26
got something he's got to get rid of probably a lot of things that he's got to get rid of hide and conceal one thing
00:35:33
of note here in this case Captain one thing that lingers is this statement about a
00:35:39
vehicle so there was a red truck that was seen near Rachel's home this is at around noon the thing that's difficult
00:35:48
here is keep in mind this is after she goes missing or believed to have gone missing she would
00:35:54
have came home at 600 p.m is the night prior but around noon on October 19th there's a red truck there's a red truck
00:36:03
that is seen near Rachel Goods home um the driver has never been identified and interestingly enough is not being called
00:36:13
a suspect but as far as we can tell police put this information out there and no one's come forward to say oh I
00:36:20
was the guy in the red truck I you know I was out there doing maintenance or I I
00:36:25
work in the area so am I dumb to assume that our suspicious cop doesn't own a red truck that was the first thing I
00:36:35
wanted to know but then even beyond that I wanted to know does this guy know anybody with a red truck because
00:36:42
remember he might have a problem on his hands now and he might have called in for somebody to help him get rid of said
00:36:49
problem yeah the only the only issue I have with that though is 20 some years on and we don't know where she's at
00:36:57
you'd think that somebody if they helped out would then come forward right and you don't need us to to hold your hand
00:37:05
for too much longer to know that this is now this is a foul play Homicide case we
00:37:13
I believe that there what Virginia State Police and the prosecutor are in a very
00:37:19
roundabout way telling us is if we had her body if we had more evidence we probably would be charging somebody with
00:37:29
her murder I mean but this is just absolutely ridiculous because when the when the mother and brother go to make
00:37:37
that report and you have this just going to say it son of a [ __ ] shaking like a
00:37:44
leaf doesn't admit to knowing her doesn't admit to having a relationship with her doesn't admit to the fact that
00:37:52
she's possibly carrying his child if I'm law enforcement yes you take him off the case and you're investigating
00:38:02
but I'd be telling this guy we're going to figure this out and once we figure this out and if we find her her dead
00:38:09
body and we find that she was pregnant you're going to fry well and he's shaking because he's scared is all get
00:38:16
out and get out is what he does so in November of 2003 Adam Williams submits a letter of resignation to the Elton
00:38:25
Police Department and his resignation in the letter states that it would be effective early January
00:38:31
of of 2004 and so what the police department does and rightfully so they say look man you you are on leave you
00:38:41
can't work the streets at all you can't answer the phones you can't be here so we will honor your resignation and pay
00:38:48
you in the meantime but you can't be here in any capacity at all right and so we're going to honor that will pay you
00:38:57
and then boom you are gone you and the Elton Police Department we don't know each other come January
00:39:03
2004 and not only does he resign but in December of 2003 after being placed on administrative leave Adam Williams moves
00:39:15
out of the state the police by this point Virginia State Police they've they're searching
00:39:22
his home they say look we suspect he's he's a he's one of our suspects in this case but we didn't find anything in his
00:39:31
home that directly ties him to this young woman's disappearance well just so we're clear and just so I'm clear on
00:39:39
everything we know that Rachel told her father that she was seeing a police officer but obviously at some point she
00:39:46
was telling friends that yeah the friends knew much more and and she was naming him she
00:39:52
wasn't just saying uh some cop some off and a couple of the friends Captain have said that
00:39:59
Rachel was going to threaten to tell Adam's wife what was going on as well so he has all kinds of reasons to not
00:40:08
justified but he has all kinds of reasons to completely lose it and I'm guessing that that might be what he did
00:40:14
and unfortunately I thought that you know the 70s and 80s even maybe early '90s that we were
00:40:22
starting to get away from the idea that if you do something terrible in this city county state you know a
00:40:31
really good method to deter or to complicate your arrest was simply to move far away right
00:40:41
unfortunately it looks like in 2003 and even in 2023 that that is still very helpful to
00:40:48
your situation if you're a criminal move far away and that he did well I guess who would know that information
00:40:57
a law enforcement officer apparently podcasters as well right but the uh in 2004 so now we're in September and this
00:41:07
is once we get to the the year anniversary of her disappearance the family does hold a memorial
00:41:15
service to honor her life and to celebrate her life and hopefully to draw more attention to Rachel Good's
00:41:24
case but in 2004 in September leading up to that there's a grand jury that's convened by local Authority and they're
00:41:35
trying to determine do we have enough evidence in this case to charge someone and to take their butt to court do we
00:41:43
have any communication between law enforcement and the investigators and Adam's wife no the
00:41:50
Virginia State Police have been very hush hush about this case I wonder wonder what they're lacking here and I
00:41:59
wonder what was missed due to the fact that a if Adam is responsible that he had time to cover
00:42:07
his tracks for a few days unnoticed to anyone but then on top of that you have another few days that there's no
00:42:15
investigation going on at all before Virginia State Police can actively be involved we talk about the first 48
00:42:25
being so important you're missing out on the first 72 the first yeah 96 and so on and so forth
00:42:32
because of the number one suspect correct I mean it's mindboggling I wonder if law enforcement ever took
00:42:42
those notes and I don't know how many notes were exchanged between Rachel and Adam but were those notes ever presented
00:42:50
to uh Adam's current wife well they they're no longer together well surprise surprise right and so what what little
00:43:01
information we have about the actual investigation is this so remember at that 11mon Mark after her disappearance
00:43:08
Rockingham County Commonwealth's Attorney Marsha gar convened a special grand jury to look into The
00:43:15
Disappearance case and publicly stated we have significant evidence and we want to move the case along so it sounds like
00:43:25
the attorney the County Attorney believed that there was significant evidence as they stated and that they
00:43:32
had a case against someone now of course Adam Williams is not directly named to the public there but we you don't have
00:43:39
to be a Sherlock Holmes to figure out who they're talking about here right and so she even boldly says an indictment is
00:43:49
certain that this will happen however no indictment ever was handed down and so they very likely did not have enough
00:43:59
evidence as far as the grand jury was concerned for somebody to make a prediction like that you
00:44:04
wonder again this is not information shared by law enforcement but it makes you wonder what was the speed bump what
00:44:12
is the bump in the road that we're not able to get over to bring an indictment well here's a speed bump that the family
00:44:20
will run into so we talked about in November of 2004 candle Memorial is held for Rachel good this is at the Blue
00:44:30
Ridge Church of Christ in Rockingham County Virginia uh of course we should also
00:44:35
mention that the mor Memorial is held for the unborn child as well now 7 years go by so now we're in
00:44:44
2010 Rachel has not been seen in seven years so her family legally declares Rachel good as
00:44:53
dead and so at this point they're hoping to further along the to to nudge the investigation in the right
00:45:02
direction the family is so in 2012 Rachel's father Carrie files a wrongful death suit against Adam
00:45:12
Williams and in fact this wrongful death suit is against the town of Elton against the former police chief Richard
00:45:19
pauland and officer Adam Williams well I guess I should have asked this question
00:45:25
earlier we have Rachel good telling her friends didn't tell her family members didn't
00:45:32
tell her father that Sunday oh by the way I'm seeing this guy and I'm also pregnant do he have any medical records
00:45:40
to prove that she was pregnant at the time yes there's there's plenty of evidence backing up the pregnancy okay
00:45:48
good because so that's not in question I do I do think just to be fair we we should state that it's not
00:45:57
100% confirmed that the child was Adam Williams right right but what we do know based off of statements given by her
00:46:06
friends her close friends is that Adam Williams the two were seeing each other that she became pregnant with Adam's
00:46:14
baby he was insistent on an abortion to the to the point of even paying for it she spends that money on something else
00:46:24
the other thing that we're going to hear from people that knew Rachel and knew Adam was
00:46:30
that they likely had two very different understandings of what this relationship
00:46:36
was so on one hand we have people telling us yeah this wasn't a situation that Adam was going to leave his wife
00:46:44
for Rachel this was a situation where he was casually and occasionally seeing Rachel right and that Rachel may have
00:46:54
thought that it was something else that it was something bigger better stronger than what Adam perceived the Rel
00:47:00
relationship to be well I was watching that the show Friday Night Lights the other day and the the father was trying
00:47:07
to explain to his teenage daughter no matter what you think a boy is thinking about they're thinking about sex and
00:47:16
then he explains to her and they'll say a lot of crazy things and do a lot of crazy things to have sex so we don't
00:47:26
know what Adam was telling her or not telling her and we also then don't know how she was interpretating whatever he
00:47:34
was telling her well and as said in that 2012 wrongful death lawsuit filed by Carrie good Rachel's father in the
00:47:43
lawsuit he's claiming that Adam Williams is the person that is responsible for his daughter's disappearance and death
00:47:51
that she's she's gone she's missing because she has been killed and remember that lawsuit was against the town the
00:47:59
former police chief and Adam Williams and this was for $5 million or5 A5 million lawsuit and you know you can
00:48:09
only squeeze so much blood from a rusty nail Adam Williams does not have five million or5 half million dollars to pay
00:48:17
this lawsuit should he lose and so that's why you go after bigger entities than just Adam Williams but ultimately
00:48:26
this wrongful death lawsuit will be dropped and this really stinks for our case here because a wrongful death
00:48:34
lawsuit is a really good way to nudge an investigation and Kick the Can further down the road because it opens up the
00:48:41
subjects involved the accused the plaintiff and the defendant in the lawsuit all get opened up to further
00:48:49
investigation and investigations that go beyond law enforcement now you'd like to
00:48:55
I I sit here and I wonder well what would they have uncovered had this lawsuit continued now the problem then
00:49:02
becomes it gets dismissed from my understanding it's that we have a lack of evidence especially against the town
00:49:09
and against the former police chief so the lack of evidence is going to be well can you
00:49:14
prove can you prove in a court of law that not only your belief that Adam Williams is responsible for The
00:49:20
Disappearance of your daughter but also that these other persons and entities fully were aware that the the officer
00:49:28
was involved with your daughter that gets very dicey and very difficult to prove and so I believe that's why this
00:49:35
lawsuit was ultimately dismissed now dad he's a tough ombre right he's not just going to back down so he decides
00:49:44
you know what we're we're going to try this a different route we're going to we're going to flank this guy from the
00:49:50
side we're going to file another wrongful death lawsuit against Adam William Willam by himself and this time
00:49:57
we're going after $50,000 so it's it's to tell everybody involved in my opinion captain that this
00:50:05
is to tell everybody involved this is not about the money this is not about profiting or or getting some kind of
00:50:11
money out of these people right this is about the investigation this is about this guy did this to our family we want
00:50:19
him held accountable in some form or fashion we want him opened up to further investigation what ends up happening
00:50:27
is the father and his team of attorneys really felt that they could get this lawsuit to go through successfully
00:50:36
against Adam Williams and prove that he was responsible for the death of Rachel good if they had the cell phone records
00:50:44
they wanted to get Rachel Good's cell phone records along with Adam Williams cell phone
00:50:50
records they attempt to get that from the cell phone carriers and I hate this because I don't believe that this is
00:50:56
true I just don't believe that this is true the cell phone companies say oh well you're trying to do
00:51:03
this 11 years after she disappeared we don't we just simply don't have those records to give to you
00:51:12
right lazy here's the problem I have with it I love this great country but we know what
00:51:18
makes the world go around and it's this little thing called money and when money's involved you'd be surprised how
00:51:24
well and how long people keep records and so maybe it's true I I can't believe that in 200
00:51:34
2003 2004 you didn't have that in some kind of database somewhere it's on a computer somewhere it's difficult for
00:51:41
the old Colonel to believe that remember I went to school for computer so try telling that job to somebody else now
00:51:48
they can't get the records but here we go Good News Virginia state police subpoena those records back in the day
00:51:55
so they hold them and this is where you take the air out of all the damn tires in the
00:52:03
garage they won't give those cell phone records to Rachel Good's family to use his evidence in the wrongful death
00:52:12
lawsuit why it's an open investigation they must feel that that giving those records away might give their case away
00:52:23
however I sit here and I go it's 20 years what are we doing are we s just sitting around sitting on our hands
00:52:30
hoping that somebody finds a body someday cuz that's what it looks like from from my perspective right from this
00:52:37
vantage point I say give those records to dad let him use them in the court open up this individual to further
00:52:44
investigation shake those trees and let's see what the hell falls out because we've been at this a long time
00:52:53
but if even if this was our first case I think that would we still be sitting here telling you look the guy that was
00:52:59
dating her the guy that was saying get the abortion I'll pay for the abortion don't tell my wife how dare you threaten
00:53:05
to tell my wife oh she disappears I don't bother to tell anybody that that I'm involved with her I don't bother to
00:53:12
tell anybody that she's pregnant with my baby oh and when you figure out that information by the way here's my
00:53:17
resignation and I'm going to move down south he looks pretty darn guilty open up this investigation or we could just
00:53:23
do what I said we should have done years ago we dress up in clown mask we go after these individuals we get them to
00:53:31
confess and then we uh disappear into the night this wrongful death lawsuit is kind of on again off again right it's
00:53:38
it's in the courts it's working its way boom it's dismissed or the the case is dropped for a multitude of reasons and
00:53:46
it's a little complex and we don't have a lot of time to go through that right now but what we can cover here Captain
00:53:53
is this is a news article from from 2016 that explains a good deal of it and the
00:54:00
headline is trial of former Elton police officer in death of Rachel good delayed
00:54:06
again and this is from the good folks over at ABC3 WHSV TV and the article reads Rachel's
00:54:14
parents Sue Adam Williams for the wrongful death of Rachel good the law suit seeks roughly $50,000 in Damages in
00:54:22
connection with the 2003 disappearance of good the family asked for a continuance on Friday September 16th the
00:54:30
family of Rachel good was supposed to be in court with former Elton Police Officer Adam Williams however on
00:54:37
Thursday Brad Pollock the attorney representing the family filed a petition to continue the case at a later date the
00:54:44
reason for this petition was a dispute with Virginia State Police over cell phone records from Rachel good and Adam
00:54:50
Williams which are critical to the plaintiff's case with the passage of time since Goods disappearance 13 years
00:54:58
ago the original cell phone records have been destroyed by cell providers but Virginia State Police have copies of the
00:55:05
phone records obtained as part of a subpoena years ago on the same day as the family's petition to continue
00:55:12
Virginia State Police filed a motion to quash that subpoena which would effectively prevent Rachel Good's family
00:55:20
from ever gaining access to the phone records They believe to be critical to this
00:55:25
case and it goes on to state that they have 6 months to refile and to determine the future of the actual case now here
00:55:33
we get an interesting quote okay and it says quote Adam Williams and his father are guilty as hell excuse my
00:55:42
language and he can run but he can only run for so long I've got the best lawyer
00:55:47
in 10 counties and we're going to get him and quote that comes from Rachel Good's father Carrie good now now why is
00:55:56
he calling out Adam Williams father so Adam Williams 22 years old living in Rockingham County Virginia his parents
00:56:08
live down in Florida the reports are that Dad makes a inconvenient or convenient one-day trip from Florida to
00:56:18
visit son Adam Williams right around the time that Rachel good goes missing so there are many out there that have
00:56:27
speculated over the years that did Dad help Adam seems like a huge douche conceal move hide the body right look it
00:56:39
I'm guessing from from Florida to Virginia we're talking anywhere depending on where he lives in Florida
00:56:46
10 15 hour drive so he's going to drive all the way up there let's grab a cup of
00:56:51
coffee now it's time to go home that's that's not how the world works yeah or or he took a dead body all the way back
00:56:58
to Florida it' be very hard to find her if you took her all the way down to Florida I was really hoping that this
00:57:07
case would be as easy as we need to find the we need to connect some dots connecting already found unidentified
00:57:18
remains to that of Rachel Good's case and unfortunately on namus there's only one person that kind of one set of
00:57:26
unidentified remains that kind of fit the criteria as possibly being connected uh because 20 years is a long time to
00:57:34
not recover a body so there is two Jane do that could be looked at as possible batches yeah there are two that that
00:57:43
seem to fit the criteria and what what I mean by fit the criteria is we're looking for someone that is roughly
00:57:50
about the same height weight and age as Rachel good but also would have had to have gone missing or disappeared or been
00:57:59
killed after that October 2003 date so there's one individual and specifically when I went to namus I was
00:58:09
looking for a body that's recovered from an area somewhat near this County in Virginia right or
00:58:18
somewhere that somebody could drive relatively quickly and and come back and and not be noticed is having been gone
00:58:26
and keep in mind we got like that 14 15 16-hour window before someone's trying to get a hold of Rachel so and then on
00:58:36
top of that how many days was it before anybody else went into her residence was
00:58:42
was Adam Williams the only person that accessed that residence for several days that's
00:58:49
information that's lacking here in the story but one ID he could have went back to the crime scene if that was the crime
00:58:55
scene and spent days cleaning it up yeah I I would like to know we we're told that her family recovered those letters
00:59:03
from her residence a few days after they reported her missing I would love to know what day that was and how much in
00:59:10
and out did the family have after they reported her missing and when did that start now the one person that we're
00:59:19
looking at here Captain is and anybody can go to the Nam website and I recommend that you do the another
00:59:24
website that we'll recommend this week of course is the Charlie project make sure you go check them out that is one
00:59:31
of the best if not the best database for missing persons is the Charlie project website on namus our individual our
00:59:40
unidentified person is up1 1856 it's a Caucasian female the body was recovered July 27th 2005 from
00:59:52
Brooklyn Maryland now Brooklyn Maryland is roughly about 2 hours 2 hours and 45 minutes drive from the Elton Virginia
01:00:02
area so you could you could get there and back in about 5 hours time this individual would fit the age the
01:00:11
estimated age range of 19 to 23 it's believe this individual the height here 5 foot 5 in uh which is they clarify
01:00:21
that that's estimated and the weight here is only 120 lbs which is estimated as well the problem with this connecting
01:00:29
this Jane Doe to our missing person is that they believe that while found in July of 2005 that this individual would
01:00:38
not have been deceased long enough to be our missing person and the other one that we have is
01:00:47
a body that was recovered earlier this year but I think a glaring problem is we don't know if the if Adam's father was
01:00:56
involved in somehow of getting rid of the body because that how many states is he going through what path did he take
01:01:05
we don't know so should we be looking and Virginia should we be looking in Florida or should we be
01:01:13
looking somewhere else and that's exactly right and that's that's what I did when when looking on namus was
01:01:19
anywhere that Adam Williams would have had ties to so any state that he would have lived in at any time even after The
01:01:28
Disappearance because as said we know he moved away he moved to Louisiana he has
01:01:32
ties to the Texas area to Mississippi and of course Florida with his parents living in Florida and so I checked all
01:01:40
of those areas as well this is one that we don't know how far along in the identification process that they are
01:01:47
with this current case but this is out of Augusta County Virginia and the article is from May 2 3rd of this year
01:01:56
and it reads the Augusta County Sheriff's Office says that they are launching an investigation after human
01:02:01
remains were reportedly found in Fishersville in a press release the Augusta County Sheriff's Office said
01:02:08
deputies were called to a residential building site in the 1600 block of tinkling Springs Road that's terrible
01:02:18
name for a road tinkling Springs on May 23rd at around 9:30 A.M M this was for a report of skeletal
01:02:27
remains being found the sheriff's office said that a contractor was digging Footers for a new home when they found
01:02:35
the alleged Remains the investigation into this matter is ongoing and the remains once excavated will be sent to
01:02:43
the office of the chief medical examiner in ronoke according to the Sheriff's Office quot these unknown remains do not
01:02:50
appear to be related to any active missing persons cases in AUST D County said Sheriff Donald Smith now keep in
01:03:00
mind Rachel Good's case is 20 years prior and from a different County so we don't know where they are in the U
01:03:08
identification process with these particular remains but where the case sits today Captain is
01:03:16
in a very very sad State her family have already accepted the idea that they're not going
01:03:25
to see their daughter again that she has already passed right that somebody took
01:03:29
her life they've also accepted that they believe that they know exactly who's responsible for it yeah it seems to make
01:03:36
a lot of sense who's responsible and the father her father Carrie good is a much
01:03:42
better man than I am because he said look this isn't really something and I'm paraphrasing I'm not saying his exact
01:03:51
words but he's pretty much saying that this isn't really something that we think that I think we should
01:03:56
execute this individual for but I believe that I know that he's responsible for my daughter's death they
01:04:03
were young this was 20 years ago and I'm now left to the point where I'm getting
01:04:08
older and I just want to bring my daughter home before my time comes yeah but I don't see this individual that we
01:04:16
all I don't see this individual where it seems like everything is pointing towards this individual as not just a
01:04:23
suspect but you know this is a seems like an open and shut case I don't I don't see him confessing
01:04:31
anytime soon I would like to know what we could learn from those cell phone records could that lead us to an area
01:04:38
where the body may be could that further the investigation on if Adam did have help from anyone right who was she in
01:04:46
contact with also the other thing that's going to further bolster your your case
01:04:51
against this individual would be speaking of m d head are they constantly in contact and then he's not calling her
01:04:58
phone anymore after a certain time on in October right on October 18th 2003 is he
01:05:06
never calling her phone again starting the following day when she's reported missing did he call her phone that that
01:05:14
might swing this thing the other way when mom shows up and reports her missing he's shaking because he's got to
01:05:19
get to the phone to try to call her so I think those cell phone records could be
01:05:24
key here obviously the Virginia State Police believe that they're key but here we sit 20 years later and we've not
01:05:31
charged anybody and so I I hope that they say that we can't give these records over to
01:05:37
the family because it is an open and active investigation I'm hoping and praying
01:05:43
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